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Leon Golub
DescriptionLeon Golub (1922-2004) was one of postwar America's most politically engaged artists. His frieze-like figurations of human cruelty and the crimes of warfare kept political painting alive throughout the countless changings of the avant garde of the 1960s and 70s, and his vocal ethical stance and intransigent emphasis on content remains refreshing today. Golub addressed events as they unfurled, from Vietnam to South Africa to Iraq and Afghanistan, confronting chilling acts of brutality head-on, in a weathered, scratchy style synthesized from sources as various as Etruscan and Roman art, French history painting, pornography and sports photographs. This attractively designed full Golub overview accompanies a 2011 retrospective exhibition at the Reina Sofía. Including 150 color plates, it surveys paintings from the 1950s to the present, giving Golub's heroic life work its full due.
Nancy Spero & Leon Golub: War And Memory
DescriptionArtwork by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero. Contributions by Katy Kline. Text by Helaine Posner.
Golub
Price: $8.75 DescriptionExhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, September 22 - November 25, 1984. Traveled to the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California, December 14 - January 27, 1985; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, February 8 - April 7, 1985; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, April 18 - June 2, 1985; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 6 - September 8, 1985. With essay by Ned Rifkin and Lynn Gumpert, list of works in the exhibition, excerpted writing and interviews, chronology, exhibition history, and bibliography. Black-and-white and color images throughout. exhibition catalogue pictorial wrappers offset-printed sewn bound black-and-white & color 20.5 x 23 cm. 95 pp. edition size unknown unsigned and unnumbered ISBN 0915557444
Inside the Studio: Talks With New York Artists
DescriptionSince 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished artists throughout its history, including Janine Antoni, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Petah Coyne, Leon Golub, David Levinthal, Mary Lucier, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Vik Muniz and Andrea Zittel. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of audio recordings made during these events, excerpting from approximately 75 of the most fascinating to provide an exceptional oral record of these artists' thinking about their working processes, conceptual issues, the current scene and artists whose work they themselves admire. Founded in 1975, ICI's mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through traveling exhibitions and other activities that reach a diverse national and international audience. Collaborating with a wide range of eminent curators over the years, ICI has created some 100 exhibitions that collectively have included the work of more than 2,500 artists, presented at over 450 art spaces located throughout the United States, and 20 other countries.
Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real, Second Edition
DescriptionLeon Golub (1922–2004) was a leading advocate of history painting—paintings that depicted narrative scenes drawn from famous moments in history and symbolized the ongoing struggle for power in both social and political relations. In this updated and expanded edition of Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real, Jon Bird examines Golub’s work from his classically influenced early paintings to his later depictions of conflict and masculine aggression and the compelling images of his final decades. Despite the critical attention Golub’s work has received, the range and extent of his practice and its complex interweaving of the iconographic traditions of both high and popular art have not been properly examined. Making a case for Golub’s practice of critical realism, which also takes account of the unconscious, Bird focuses on two themes that dominate Golub’s work: how his art presents the body as a sign for social and psychic identity and how his work posits the symbolic expression of social space. Featuring nearly two hundred color plates, Bird’s study is the definitive look at Golub, defining his relationship to modernism and his place among the great artists of the twentieth century. Golub Leon News![]()
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